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Can different Views for different User Categories be created in SharePoint?

I need to limit different Users to view only the information assigned to them in their View. For exapmle (Sales will only see what is in Sales's View). Thanks, ...

SharePoint Backup / Restore Solutions

Hi, I am using SharePoint to build a website and I am looking into the backup / restore solution. The website is hosted on a set of virtual machines (one VM for the web front-end, one VM for SQL Server). I have a backup of these VMs in a base state (fresh install of WSS and SQL, no web application created, etc.) What I would like to h...

SPD workflow to reset check box

I have a sharepoint list that uses a cascading lookup to display items from another list in the first list. I need to reset the checkbox on the item in the lookup display box in the every week beginning with a date in the "Start Date" field. Is it possible to construct a workflow in SPD to reset the checkbox every 7 days from the "Start...

sending sharepoint list updates to an external database/service

I would like to use Sharepoint as a CMS for an external system. After a user makes changes to a list item of a custom list type, I'd like to send those updates to the external system. In this case the external system is a SQL database, but we could put a webservice on top of that if it helps. I realize there is a webservice for queryi...

Object Reference Not Set to an instance of an object

I have 3 Webpart namely WebPart-1.dwp, Webpart-2.dwp and WebPart-3.dwp. When I have the following scenario: WebPart-1 : WebPart-2 (Inheritance) WebPart-2: Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart (Inheritance) If I load WebPart-1, I will get to see the controls properly. When I have the following scenario: WebPart-1 : WebPart-2 ...

VSeWSS Service Error LoaderException

VSeWSS Deployement cast loader exception: Do anyone have any ide of solution to this problem. Error 1 VSeWSS Service Error: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. Log file written to: C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\VSeWSS 1.3...

How to create new sub site in SharePoint 2010 using web services?

In SharePoint 2010, there is a new method CreateWeb in the Sites web service with the purpose to create new SharePoint sub sites. There are, however, a lot of issues with it - well, that is my experience at least. Here is the code that should utilize the web service and its method properly: Uri site = new Uri("http://sp2010site/"); st...

WCF Service ajax method call returns 404

Hi all, I have deployed a WCF service to SharePoint and on my own machine everything works fine. Navigating to the .svc works and, as expected, navigating to service.svc/Operation generates a "method not allowed message". Posting to the service using jQuery also works perfectly on my own machine. However, when my colleague gets the lat...

Sharepoint 2007 STSADM export exports a file, but import cannot find the file specified.

I have tried the import and export with and without file compression. Any ideas? Here is the command I am using: stsadm.exe -o export -url http://site.com/sites/legal/ -versions 4 -includeusersecurity -haltonfatalerror -filename c:\export\legalexport\ -nofilecompression Here is the line in the export log: [1/13/2010 8:33:21 AM]: Pro...

Getting SharePoint crawl history

I have an application that uses the Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CrawlHistory class to read crawl history information once a day and save it to a database where we can generate reports and statistics. For some reason, though, this class will not return data for crawls that started on the current date; it will only retur...

SharePoint Master Page modified SPSWC:SearchBoxEx not working correctly on each site

I have created a custom master page and have the follwoing code on the page: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server"> <SPSWC:SearchBoxEx id="SearchBox" RegisterStyles="false" TextBeforeDropDown="" ...

Platform or tools for merging & filtering spreadsheet data online?

My clients produce lots of data in the form of ad hoc spreadsheets, which they want to upload to their web site and then be able to create online, reports that require joins and filtering of the results. These report should not require any custom coding but will be made with the help of the online platform - the users will be able to cho...

Deploying a content type and site columns with a WSP in MOSS

I'm looking for a clean, and repeatable, solution to deploying custom site columns and content types to MOSS using a WSP. I've currently split up my product into two Visual Studio solutions. The first contains the code itself where the second will contain the XML files required to describe the site columns and content types. ...

SharePoint canceled workflow still sending task overdue notification

We're having a problem on one of our SharePoint sites as follows: User created a Collect Signatures workflow on an item in a document library. User canceled the workflow. All tasks created by the workflow are marked as completed. However, users are still being emailed task overdue notifications! I'm at a complete loss as to why this ...

sharepoint persistence

I'm pretty new to SharePoint Web Part development, so I'm not sure the best practices for handling data persistence. In my application, user postbacks will be modifying some underlying data structure that I would like to maintain rather than rebuild. The two things I have tried so far are making objects serializable, and storing them...

Stream Videos in Sharepoint

I have a requirement to upload videos, stream them, and search for them. It is required that the videos are not public, the Sharepoint site will be secured with a login. Is this possible with Sharepoint? I read some about ShareTube, but I am not clear. Thanks ...

Deploy custom web service to sharepoint server(2007/2010)?

According to MSDN, for deploying custom web service, we need to create *wsdl.aspx and *disco.aspx files, and put them with .asmx together under _vti_bin folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\isapi). And put the dll under bin folder of the root of sharepoint virtual directory. It works correctly f...

Show list items specific to user sharepoint

Hi all, In my project i have a asset list which contains "request to download" link. In the same list there is "download link" column which is default empty. Now when any user clicks on request to download link a workflow is activated and it will send request to approver to approve or reject the download request. If approver accept t...

Sharepoint - create blank page with only webpart

A client has asked that I create a series of filters on a list, with some heavily customised output. To get the output correct I'll need to style a content query webpart using XSL - which is fine, that's pretty simple. However, my main problem is how to apply multiple filters to the webpart. I don't know how to have one webpart insert p...

pages/forms/allitems.aspx missing from my sub site

I have a subsite in sharepoint and I want to go to pages/forms/allitems.aspx. It is not there? Why would it be missing? I want to see what layout a page is using. ...